THE NEW YORKER clarity, as was everythIng else on the program. A NIGHT earlier, Jeanette Mac- Donald, the Hollywood soprano, moved into CarnegIe Hall to gIve a long recItal before a large audience of her fans. One noticeable thing about the audience was that there seemed to be an unusually great number of young people in it; I would have thought Miss MacDonald's following was made up principally of romantics in their late thirties or early forties, who had seen "Naughty Marietta" and the other MacDonald-Nelson Eddy movies four or five times apiece. Maybe those peo- ple were around someplace, too. The singer came on quite late (it was al- most nine 0' clock when she got started), but she was worth the wait, for even though she didn't sound like a first-class soprano, she looked like one. She worked from the stage apron, standing in front of a portable shell, which was intended to help her small voice. The curtains were drawn to the sides of the shell, two soft spotlights were trained on her, and all the rest of the auditorium was in darkness. Her gown was white, crisp, and expensive-looking, and her hair, of a gleaming chestnut color, was surpass- ingly neat. She held herself proudly but with a gracious touch of humility. Her smiles, directed toward the audience and the accompanist, Collins Smith, were radiant and kindly. She looked as cool and indestructible as the woman you see at the far end of the long do- mestic rug in those carpet ads. Her program included no Sigmund Rom- berg or Victor Herbert; it was seriously planned, and she must have worked on it intensively. There were arias by Gounod, Bellini, and Puccini; songs by Brahms, Grieg, Wolf, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Samuel Barber, and others; and "The Last Rose of Summer," a pIece of music I heard often, and learned to loathe, early in life. There was some skill in Miss MacDonald's delivery of these things-enough to excite a meas- ure of admiration for her-but the evening was mostly a matter of listening to an unremarkable and not very pretty voice attempting things beyond its powers in a place too large for it, and of fearing that at any moment the bur- den might prove too much for it and bring embarrassment to that lovely per- son, its owner. T HE first of the season's Young People's Concerts, which are given by the Philharmonic-Symphony Society, occurred last Saturday afternoon at 119 \' , M < , ^' \ ' , ..\ ',' - Â' \ \\. '\ 1\ 1 '" · >', \ > \\1\,') \ , ' , \. " ---L, \\\ \\ , ,...,.'\ ..<<: ;r- '" ' ...." ,...>> ., \ , :' ", "'" . " . r \,' r ..'O \ ''r>.<m 1ij 'I.' \<' 3J t # - < i1 } !t.. " ,y ) 'f. '<.. 1J ese are our 125th Anniversary Celebration Scotches. blended for exceptional sITIoothness, Ii o (Thtness " .' J;' H,," l" and cOl'ne-heather' t':: '" \-=:' :.':" \. :-' ó ' .,. (1:.+ J<" " It i 't BELï:S ' , C * { ' h þ"'.,,. v'c\ ,co 'C . ! Q\\C' , tf '" ' ,á t 'I $ if ANÚSO""f!;f , ,ut>f RS ør: ,. $ , uf:V fa, AR$ J'- !:,' 'f' < '\\ \i >0' *, '" ..... '= ;,j,.r" };.' ):.: , # . """ " 13 ELL'S '. ,:' :)f L j ......... :R t ..... 56 w Of t "'{tA ......1..-... tIQUEUR Bt..fnDED$roTCtl Wt!IS.KY -1\ '""'" ' o P $" '.' ',., '1'.1 / ,1 ;>'iJ'" . +.Ill, .... ,,,.. "''"' "" ,,' ' , I!' , " 4"" " , :+->>"Æ*" <<.w..v" ' f};;X t,t "'.. / /;:#- J1IffyJ,j) ) -J Id. e """q! I r: g >,,*:,"''-' SCOTLAND oi: tA!<iO {' ITt j/ :'uf ;í{Ill.1> k; '< Y! H n-QRD ....ONN 9t..:t' -r .............. ->1....& ...& ;:c .,JI'l i "! ;...;.. :{ , "'" 2?> 86 PROOF G. F. Heub]ein & Bro., Inc., Hartford, Conn., sole agents for U. S. A. Product of Arthur BelJ & Sons, Ltd., Perth.. Scot1and. · Establtshed 1825.